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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1753c84 | at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 8d43e16 | Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3ad1cd4 | the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 71359b1 | Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands. | knitting | Gregory Maguire | |
| 20d7d44 | One plus one equals both. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 31ef5ee | I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 742f279 | Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 38b1337 | Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e2f9d2a | Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| e189271 | It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 2217f5b | Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| dd58b55 | Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| fe17c8a | He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 5a5c881 | And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 2da9389 | One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 5aad550 | My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi! | humor | Jill Conner Browne | |
| 0507301 | And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be? | self-image | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| 8f249cd | There is nothing to fear,' she says to me softly. 'There is never anything to fear. The worst fear is of fear itself, and you can conquer that.' 'How?' I murmur. It feels as if I am talking in my sleep, floating down a stream of sleep. 'How can I conquer the worst fear?' 'You just decide,' she says simply. 'Just decide that you are not going to be a fearful woman and when you come to something that makes you apprehensive, you face it and .. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| dbe2a55 | In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy." | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a889f4c | If that was life, then it was twisted. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a557122 | Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 0a7f077 | Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 94967ef | Shards of glass slip down the wall and into the sink. IT pulls away from me, puzzled. I reach in and wrap my fingers around a triangle of glass. I hold it to Andy Evans's neck. He freezes. I push just hard enough to raise one drop of blood. He raises his arms over his head. My hand quivers. I want to insert the glass all the way through his throat, I want to hear him scream. I look up. I see the stubble on his chin, a fleck of white in the .. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7863e1f | Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish. | time regret | Mary Downing Hahn | |
| 3f17989 | I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 8ff33d4 | Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she's surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule i.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 5e85d55 | Mona knocked at the wrong time. "Uh...yeah...wait a minute, Mona -- " Mona shouted through the door. "Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up." Michael grinned at Jon. "My roommate. Brace yourself." Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. "Hi! I'm Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!" | Armistead Maupin | ||
| bccd13b | Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| c55de70 | The almanac had a strange, soapy smell and made a cracking noise like fire as she turned the pages. She'd never been the first person to open a book. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| edd7bb5 | Everyone was fucked up in their own way; as before, it was a mark of one's individuality. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 8b55232 | You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 0bbc1e4 | He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| a98153d | If you'll kiss me back," he whispered huskily, brushing his lips along the curve of her jaw, "I'll make it six million. If you'll go to bed with me tonight," he continued, losing himself in the scent of her perfume and the softness of her skin, "I'll give you the world. But if you'll move in with me," he continued, dragging his mouth across her cheek to the corner of her lips, "I'll do much better than that." Unable to turn her face farther.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| d285fe4 | Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 27dece2 | Do you know why I married you, Philip?" "Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer." She chuckled at that and shook her head..."I believed," she confessed somberly, "I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was?" "I can't imagine." "I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life." Philip and Caroline" | Judith McNaught | ||
| 575ac90 | Leave the star on top," said an achingly gentle, deep voice. "There's already one angel in the room." -- | Judith McNaught | ||
| 753e005 | We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze. | verges grass childhood | Roddy Doyle | |
| 36afe42 | It's the only thing sexier than a sexy woman. A sexy woman cooking fuckin' sausages. | sexy-humor | Roddy Doyle | |
| 9ae6746 | One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 53a9985 | Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform. | Pat Conroy | ||
| db80ba8 | It's the southern way, Doctor." "The southern way?" she said. "My mother's immortal phrase. We laugh when the pain gets too much. We laugh when the pity of human life gets too . . . pitiful. We laugh when there's nothing else to do." "When do you weep . . . according to the southern way?" "After we laugh, Doctor. Always. Always after we laugh." | Pat Conroy | ||
| f3b82bd | Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most. | love hurt | Pat Conroy | |
| ec14a35 | Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan." | Erle Stanley Gardner | ||
| ccaab8e | Because mankind can circumvent evolutionary law, it is incumbent upon him, say evolutionary biologists to develop another law to abide by if he wishes to survive, to not outstrip his food base. He must learn restraint. He must derive some other, wiser way of behaving toward the land. He must be more attentive to the biological imperatives of the system of sun-driven protoplasm upon which he, too, is still dependent. Not because he must, bec.. | Barry Lopez |